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The World's First Flying Hotel!! See the pictures here!

The World's First Flying Hotel

The Hotelicopter features 18 luxuriously- appointed rooms for adrenaline junkies seeking a truly unique and memorable travel experience.
Each soundproofed room is equipped with a queen-sized bed, fine linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless internet access, and all the luxurious appointments you'd expect from a flying five star hotel. Room service is available one hour after liftoff and prior to landing.

Dimensions Length: 42 m (137 ft)
Height: 28m (91 ft)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 105850 kg (232,870 lb)
Maximum speed: 255 km/h (137 kt) (158 miles/h)
Cruising speed: 237 km/h (127 kt) (147 miles/h)
Original Mi Range: 515 km (320 mi)
Our augmented Mi Range - 1,296 km (700 mi)

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Think you are beautiful?Let's Ask Your iPhone

There is no denying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and many different things can make a person’s attractiveness Most of them are personality, intelligence, sense of humor and style all factor determine the overall beauty , it is not all about facial structure. Besides, if we were all attracted to the same person, life would be even more of a competition than it is already.

There are some people though, who are regarded as having a more conventional beauty and the reason behind it is actually more technical than it would seem. iPhone has recently added an application known as the Vanity app that allows users to import a picture of their face and then pinpoint certain areas for calculation.

The program will then use the information to determine the user’s ‘beauty’ based on the Golden Ratio. You may remember the Golden Ratio from other areas of study. The golden ratio, also known as the divine proportion, golden mean, or golden section, is a number often encountered when taking the ratios of distances in simple geometric figures.

Its proportions have been used for centuries to create stunning architecture and artwork, but it can be found throughout nature including human faces. The closer a person’s features match the ideal proportions, the more conventionally attractive they are.

If you are brave enough to take on the Vanity app you will be issued a score between 1 and 10. Do not despair if the score you get is lower than you had hoped.As previously mentioned, there are so many more aspects to a person’s beauty than facial proportions and there are some very quirky looking people who are considered extremely good-looking.

Angelina Jolie Heads to Haiti

And she's off.

After her PDA-packed Super Bowl appearance with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie jetted off to the Dominican Republic Monday to visit hospitalized Haitian earthquake survivors and meet with Dominican President Leonel Fernandez.

On Tuesday, the 34-year-old UN goodwill ambassador -- who is suing a British tabloid for claming that she plans to split from Brad Pitt -- is expected to travel to Haiti.

Last month, Jolie -- who has visited everywhere from Iraq to Thailand to Pakistan -- announced that she and beau Pitt, 46, are donating $1 million to the emergency medical operation in Haiti.

In a statement, she said: "It is incredibly horrible to see a catastrophe of this size hit a people who have been suffering from extreme poverty, violence and unrest for so many decades."

Valentine Day: Beauty tips for girls and wives.Dont miss this!

Valentine's Day is an important day for a lot of girls, boys, husbands and wives. On this special day girl friends and wives get decked up for their boy friends and husbands. This time the day of love is coming on Sunday so don’t miss the opportunity to have a wonderful long activities and make sure to attract your guy

Here some Valentine special beauty tips for girl friends and wives:

There are a number of styles that are very flattering on women. Experiment with different styles like curls, straight and colouring to find the best look for you.

For eyes apply eye shadow base all over the eye area, wear natural shades that complement your eye color. Consider shades of beige, brown, gray and purple.

For cheeks using a cream blush with finger tips apply in a pink or red tone on apple’s of cheeks, then follow with the same color in a powder blush and apply on top of cream blush for a hot blushing cheek

Keep your lips soft and kissable with lip gloss or flavored chapsticks. Use Lipsticks of either deep red shed, chocolate shad or pink shed which usually depends when and where you are going.

Get a pedicure and manicure, match the nail enamel shades with your clothes. You can add shine to the topcoat to create some excitement.

If you are planning to go on a funky date like going for a music concert or for a romantic film, then girls can attire trendy tops donned with a pair of blue jeans or wear a knee-length skirt. If you are going out for lunch, best to wear like pinks, cream, beiges, blues, yellows, color. For a dinner date, you can wear the classy black dress. If you are going to party in a discotheque wear a nice party dress, preferably in black.

Shoes or Sandal style depends where you are going for Valentine's Day party. Always avoid to use flat sandals.

Pick a purse to match with your clothes but remember it should not be big, it should be trendy. Use accessories like stylish belts, classy earrings and delicate bracelets.

So, girlfriends and wives immediately reserve your seat in your parlour for biggest festival of love. Always ask your beautician about beauty tips for the big day of Valentine.

Ten Valentine's Day gifts under $20

Heart jewelry at Reruns Consignment Boutique on Market Square

14 February is nearing and still wondering what to get for your loved one.Valentine's Day should be about celebrating love, not breaking the bank. This year, show your loved ones how much you care with these 10 romantic gifts for under $20.

"100 Love Sonnets" by Pablo Neruda. If you don't consider yourself very good with words, let this famous book of love poems do the talking.
Price: $16.95 at Barnes and Noble

Heart Jewelry. Heart-shaped rhinestone-studded earrings, bracelets and necklaces can be found at Reruns Consignment Boutique on the corner of Market Square.
Price: $8-$13

Gift Basket. Known for its in-house bakery, Cafe 4 in Market Square is selling gift baskets for Valentine's Day. The baskets include cookies, candy and other romantic treats.
Price: $17.50 (large) and $11.50 (small)

Sterling Silver Heart Earrings. Handmade heart-shaped earrings by Ken Attkisson, an artist from North Carolina, can be found at Bliss Home and Art in Market Square.
Price: $14.95

Valentine Soaps. Handmade Valentine's Day-themed soaps made from vegetable glycerin are available at Earth to the Old City in Market Square.
Price: $7.99

Coupons. At Barnes and Noble, you can get Truth or Dare, Love, Kiss Me and Why I Love You coupon books that will last you for weeks after Valentine's Day.
Price: $5.99

Roll-On Perfume. Ralph Lauren has three romantic scents available in a roll-on tube. You can find these travel-friendly perfumes in any major department store.
Price: $20

Fragranced Lip Balm with a little personality from Earth to the Old City comes in a red bag with a Valentine's Day card attached.
Price: $6.99

DVD's. Romantic movies don't have to be chick flicks. Movies like "True Romance" by Quentin Tarantino and "The Princess Bride" will satisfy both of you.
Price: $19.99 at Best Buy

The best way to anyone's heart is through the stomach. Bake your favorite cake or batch of cookies and decorate them how you wish.

Resource:www.knoxnews.com

Why Linux founder endorses Google's Nexus One?

Why does Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel programming project love Nexus One?

According to him, he always think that phones are so irritating and it is only a gadget that is very disturbing. Torvalds said in a blog post. "But I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner."

What are the features that won him over?

He said "I've wanted to have a GPS unit for my car anyway, and I thought that Google navigation might finally make a phone useful," Torvalds said. "And it does. What a difference!

I no longer feel like I'm dragging a phone with me 'just in case' I would need to get in touch with somebody--now I'm having a useful gadget instead. The fact that you can use it as a phone, too, is kind of secondary."

Google’s Android run on Java like layer atop, Google’s Dalvik virtual machine and accompanying software libraries.

More recently, though, Google issued a Native Development Kit for software that runs directly on the phone's Linux operating system. Through that technology, Mozilla is working on a version of Firefox for Android.

soft drinks can cause pancreatic cancer

A study in Singapore had found that drinking sugared soft drinks can cause pancreatic cancer. It was led by the University of Minnesota which followed some 60,000 people in Singapore for 14 years.

Drinking more than two soft drinks a week can increase 87 percent higher chance of getting pancreatic cancer. The article is on Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

The conclusions were drawn using data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study at the National University of Singapore, which is a broad, long term project on cancer.

In this particular study, the theory is that sugar may increase pancreatic cancer cells.

But one leading oncologist in Singapore says it is too early to draw this link.

A lot of people disagree with this statement because if sugar is the cause of pancreatic cancer , so other diets such as rice also have a lot of glucose which increase the level of sugar

Besides sugar, other studies have linked the disease with eating burnt red meat as well.

Pancreatic cancer sufferers have a low survival rate, and the illness is said to affect some 230,000 people globally. 

(Pancreatic cancer is cancer of the pancreas)

Aboard Shuttle Endeavour

Let’s look at the five men and one woman en route to the International Space Station:

Commander George Zamka is the person that bring the fragments of moon rick by Neil Amstrong up to Mount Everest by a former shuttle astronaut last spring. Zamka accepted the rocks last month and said he would make sure they got into the new space station compartments flying up on Endeavour. They will serve, he said, "as a reminder to all of the astronauts who are up there, what human beings can do and what our challenges are."

Zamka is 47 year ld Marine colonel grew up in New York, Rochester Hills, Mich., and Medellin, Colombia, his mother's hometown. It was "a great enticement" for pursuing an aviation career. His Colombian pilot uncle also was an influence.

Zamka went on to become a fighter pilot. He and wife Elisa have a 15-year-old girl and 8-year-old boy.
Pilot Terry Virts' childhood revolved around the space program.

He grew up in Columbia, Md., not far from Goddard Space Flight Center, where his parents worked. Mom was a secretary, and dad was a technician for NASA's Landsat satellites.

Virts, 42, said his first book as a child was about the Apollo moon landings and his bedroom was adorned with rocket and airplane posters. He'd occasionally accompany his father to the satellite control room at Goddard in the 1970s.

Former NFL star Warren Sapp Arrested for Domestic Battery

Warren Sapp who is the Former NFL was arrested by Miami Beach Police this afternoon for charged with misdemeanor domestic battery stemming from an allegedly violent confrontation with his girlfriend.

According to the Miami Beach Police Department, Sapp is accused of attacking his girlfriend of two years at around 5:00 AM Saturday at the Shore Club Hotel.

According to the arrest report, the alleged victim had "a swollen right knee and bruises on the back of her neck."

Sapp allowed her girlfriend to sleep in the hotel room but early in the morning , he pulled her out of the bed and start fighting about the guys she was hanging with earlier Friday night.

Sapp's girlfriend told cops that during the argument Sapp "grabbed her and began to choke her." He eventually threw her out of the room, she claims.

Sapp is in Miami for the Super Bowl and serves as an analyst for the NFL Network and on Showtime's "Inside the NFL."

When cops spoke to Sapp, he told them he had allowed the woman to stay in his room -- but later on decided he wanted her to leave because "he was expecting company." He told police he was trying to help her and she fell.

The NFL Network released a statement saying they were aware of the incident and that Sapp will not appear on the NFL Network until they review the matter.

Sapp is scheduled to co-host an event at BED Miami tonight. They tell us they haven't heard about the incident and, as of now, everything is still a go.

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Nasa space shuttle launch time

 
This is the last operational year for the Space Shuttle, water was found on the moon, SpaceShip Two was unveiled and the Obama administration submitted a new roadmap for NASA’s future. Today, the Shuttle launches for the first time this year, and unfortunately for the last time at night. Endeavour, the spacecraft for this mission, will deliver a third connecting module – the Tranquility node – to the ISS and a seven-windowed cupola to be used as a control room for robotics. The mission will feature three spacewalks.


The pilot, Terry Virts, is a lucky rookie and is obviously looking forward to his first stay in space:  “Everybody on their first spaceflight is just looking forward to going into space. It’s an amazing concept to think of leaving the planet Earth, and just not that many people have gotten to do that, so I’m really looking forward to that. 



Stiff wind rattled the launch site Saturday night as the fuel flowed into the shuttle, but forecasters were hopeful the gusts would subside in time for the 4:39 a.m. ET liftoff. The odds of good weather were 80 percent.


You have no idea how much I’d give to spend a few hours up there, floating while watching the Earth beneath me thanks to the breathtaking panorama the module is going to provide. But don’t worry, you don’t need to go to space to enjoy beautiful visuals. If you’re on the East Coast, there’s a good chance that you may see the Shutle’s beautiful fire trail rising up in the sky.

Karachi violence blow to Pakistan economy

KARACHI — A wave of political and sectarian violence sweeping Karachi threatens heavy financial losses in the country's economic hub, where analysts fear Islamists are bent on fanning maximum instability.

Bomb attacks targeting Shiite Muslims have killed 76 people in six weeks, devastating riots and a surge in political shootings have sparked fears that after relative quiet, Karachi is returning to the eye of the storm.

Pakistan's richest city has been spared the worst of a two-year Islamist bombing campaign but is plagued by crime and kidnappings, which some analysts say militant groups use to bankroll campaigns in the northwest and Afghanistan.

"Karachi accounts for nearly 45 percent of Pakistan's GDP," independent economist A.B. Shahid told AFP.
"It translates into roughly 5 billion rupees (180 million dollars) per day and tax revenues of one billion rupees per day," he said.

The city is a national headquarters for industry and the service sector, a bustling port city on the Arabian sea with a teeming population of 16 million.

"If the collapse of Pakistan's economy is the intention of its adversaries, then the easiest route to follow is ensure that Karachi's activity comes to a complete standstill," said Shahid.

Pakistan recorded two percent gross domestic product growth last fiscal year, which ended on June 30, the worst-recorded economic growth since the financial year 1997-1998.

Ashfaq Hasan Khan, once economic advisor to former president Pervez Musharraf, said violence in Karachi was aimed at crippling Pakistan's economy.

"Karachi has been spared of terrorism and violence for a long time and was contributing massively to the country's weak economy, but now the plotters want to completely cripple Pakistan's economy by attacking our port city," he said.

It is largely impossible to calculate exact losses caused by violence and closures, such as for mourning after December 28 and February 5 bomb attacks on Shiite Muslims.

"We can't calculate the exact loss to the country's economy in case of violence or terror attacks on Karachi because it involves many factors. But any day Karachi closes, it loses many billions of rupees," said Khan.
The shutdown of the city Saturday, when thousands attended funerals for the 33 people killed on February 5, cost 12 to 15 billion rupees, he estimated.

Officials say growing security concerns and targeted killings, which have exposed political tensions, tarnish Karachi's attraction for foreign investors.

"We are painstakingly convincing foreign investors to come here and many of them do agree but one incident forces them to pull back," Zubair Motiwala, an investment advisor in the provincial government, told AFP.
"Militancy in the northwest is dangerous for Karachi as well, as foreign investors take a general view of the whole country," Motiwala said.

The situation also bodes ill for the stock market, still recovering from an abysmal 2008, when it suffered heavily from political turmoil, militancy and the global recession.

"Violence in Karachi affects market sentiments and results in a slowdown in foreign investment," said Mohammad Sohail, chief of Topline Securities.

The government paid around two billion rupees (24 million dollars) to traders and shopkeepers whose shops and commodities went up in smoke when arsonists and rioters went on the rampage after the December 28 attack.

"Violence after the blast on Ashura damaged around 1,500 shops in 30 markets in Karachi, which damaged confidence of investors a great deal," said Motiwala.

Hundreds of workers are still out of work, waiting for their businesses to be rebuilt.

They experienced further problems from political violence, which officials say has killed around 85 people, mainly activists from Awami National Party (ANP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) so far this year.
Both ANP and MQM are coalition partners of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital.

"I am father of four surviving on daily wages," said 31-year-old Mohammad Asghar, who said for four days he could not go out to work in his western Orangi neighbourhood, where many of the killings were concentrated.

"My pocket feeds my children. When it is empty my kids go hungry," he said.

**Resource: Google news